March 10, 2007...12:18 pm
The reason why I started stroking the strings!
Jump to Comments I’ve had this keen desire to master at least one instrument before I finished my engineering.Itried my hands on the keyboard way back in my second year, and all that i could play on theinstrument was the default pre-loaded songs in it! Well, its not that i gave it a strong try, butthat was my first attempt. Things really didn’t materialize and I kept myself occupied with otherchores.I tend to get creative (rather idiotic) ideas only during my examinations. A few months back,sometime last year, my interest in instrumental music again reached it’s peak. I knew it was themost inappropriate time for me to start, because there were different Examinations fastapproaching, but my enthusiasm got the better of me. I started fidgeting with a violin of one of my friend’s. I held it on my lap for a week or so, tweaking out discordant tones in variegatedpitches. As such, I’ve never been a disturbance to my room mates , but this was somethingthat i just couldn’t avoid. I could never obtain the cadence which I craved for the violin to doleout, and being as such a guy with little patience, I never could compel myself to learn the basicsright. It was like, i just wanted to challenge my friend ( who knew to play the instrumentdecently well) the very next day.Wish things worked my way!But most of the wishes that youyearn for are never satisfied.Frustrated, I just gave up within a week and started looking out for some other activity which Icould spend my free time on. Days went by with life getting quite monotonous. In a casual chatwith a few of my friends , for some reason , the violin issue sprung back and I was ridiculed atmy failed attempt to learn the instrument. Well, the mistake was on my side , but still Mr. Egocrept in and I challenged Calvin that I would learn to play the violin by the end of my fourthyear. That was just an impromptu statement and never ever had I even dreamt of learning itprofessionally.That episode aside, things were soon forgotten, and the routine monotony set in.A few weeks back I got back to hyd. and if not seriously, I at least started working on myproject. With the work at least partially complete, I wondered if it would be really worthwhile if I could spend some time on any other activity besides reading novels , the project and of coursesleeping Well before setting off from Chennai I had decided to. optimally use the two monthstime I had. I was knee bent on getting back to Swimming , but with not many pools close to myhouse dropped the idea. One day something just reminded me of the challenge that I had posed toCalvin (rather what he had posed me ). But for some reason, I felt learning to play a violin, of all the instruments, wasn’t really quite appealing. I Placed a few inquiries here and there andfinally got to know through Collin, that there was some place called Melowings which tutoredpeople on instruments. I just went in for a casual inquiry and had a chat with the instructor. I washighly impressed by the way he spoke and was sure this was definitely not a place not to startlearning a Guitar! Yep! you read it right…a Guitar!!
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